The role of hospital heterogeneity in measuring marginal returns to medical care: A reply to Barreca, Guldi, Lindo, and Waddell

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2125-2131

  Almond, Douglas ^a,b,c   Doyle Jr , Joseph J ^a,b,c   Kowalski, Amanda E ^a,b,c   Williams, Heidi ^a,b,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HETEROGENEITY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MORTALITY; WEIGHT;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT WELFARE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

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EID: 84857386425     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjr037     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Almond, Douglas, Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Amanda Kowalski, and Heidi Williams, "Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk New- borns," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (2010), 591-634.
2. Barreca, Alan, Melanie Guldi, Jason Lindo, and Glen Waddell "Saving Babies? Revisiting the Effect of the Very Low Birth Weight Classification," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (2011).